Urban AgriCulture and Food Systems Dynamics in the German Bonn/Rhein-Sieg Region
- Agricultural activities within city boundaries have a long history in both developed and developing countries. In this paper, a broad approach to Urban AgriCulture (UAC) is used, one that includes the production of crops in urban and peri-urban areas and ranges in developed countries from allotment gardens over community gardens to semi-entrepreneurial self-harvest farms and fully commercialized agriculture. With an empirical case study on UAC Initiatives in the Bonn/Rhein-Sieg region this work fills a gap since the lack of comprehensive and comparative studies on urban agriculture (UA) currently makes it difficult for researchers to identify the benefits of UA activities.
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| Document Type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Darya Hirsch, Christian H. Meyer, Johannes Klement, Martin Hamer, Wiltrud Terlau |
| Parent Title (English): | International Journal on Food System Dynamics |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| First Page: | 341 |
| Last Page: | 359 |
| ISSN: | 1869-6945 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-27134 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18461/ijfsd.v7i4.745 |
| Publisher: | CentMa Press |
| Place of publication: | Bonn |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
| Date of first publication: | 2016/08/28 |
| Copyright: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License |
| Keyword: | agriculture; citizen participation; food systems; regional food production; social empirical research; sustainable transition; urban green spaces |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Internationales Zentrum für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (IZNE) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 63 Landwirtschaft / 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche |
| Entry in this database: | 2016/09/20 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
